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THE CRY OF THE GULL

            for Max Ernst

 

An embryo with a bloodshot eye

crying through rages of the snow

goes seeking a skin coat to try.

What shelter for the pulse to know?

... 

   

(For full text see the Kindle ebook The Nature of Things (Collected Poems) by Alan Marshfield)

   

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